Subj : Re: Wannabe HAM
To   : HOLGER GRANHOLM
From : JIMMY ANDERSON
Date : Tue Sep 20 2016 08:42 am

-=> Holger Granholm wrote to Jimmy Anderson <=-

 HG> If the cell net goes down, so does the ISP's. In a disaster, usually
 HG> all providers, be they cell- or inter-net, go down.

Okay - let me back up a step...

We live near a major fault line. I have people around me that don't use
HAM and have family far off. If a disaster hit and they needed to get
communication to their family in Chicago, they wouldn't be able to.

I, as a HAM, could theoretically get a message out, but it would be
verbal and passed through others. With Winlink linked via radio, 
an email could leave my laptop, go through the HAM, through the radio
network to a place that DOES have Internet service, then be delivered
to their family in Chicago.

Again, in theory. :-)


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